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2 *** Version <cvs>
3
4 - added support for DAQ raw data file format V2
5
6 - implemented an arbitrary time stamp for the events calculated from the
7 run number, the date of start and the FADC clock tick from the first
8 module
9
10 - added a new classes storing the pedestals in units of photons:
11 MPedPhotPix, MPedPhotCam
12
13 - added support for DC current files from the camera control
14
15
16
17 *** Version 0.8.3 (2003/12/05)
18
19 - adapted Random Forest classes to allow the use with MC
20 multi-telescope files which can be produced with the coming
21 camera version 0.7.
22
23 - added classes to read and interprete central control report files
24 (Directory: mreport, Base-Class: MReport, Reader: MReportFileRead, ...)
25
26 - enhanced merpp (the executable) to support .raw and .rep files.
27
28 - added classes for light calibration (MCalibration* and
29 MHCalibration*) by Markus Gaug. Further work has to be and will
30 be done soon.
31
32 - Added a preliminary 'synchronizer' (MReadReports) which will
33 replace MReadMarsFile as soon as it is finished.
34
35 - Added a tutorial macro demonstrating how report files are merpped
36 and how they can be read from the root file in the correct order
37 of time (readrep.C)
38
39 - Added a generalized histogram (similar to MH3) called MVsTime
40 which allows to plot variables (or rules - MDataChain - of
41 variables) vs time. For an example have a look at tempvstime.C.
42
43 - Changed the name of the event trees:
44 + Events --> Events
45 + PedEvents --> Pedestals
46 + CalEvents --> Calibration
47
48 - changed name of MTime in the event trees from MRawEvtTime to MTime
49
50 - added displaying the sector indices to the mars event display
51
52 - Magic Online Analysis (MOnA) implemented in a first version
53 (see mona.cc, MOnlineDump and MOnlineDisplay)
54
55 - added classes to calculate event rate
56 (preliminary: MEventRateCalc, MEventRate)
57
58 - added new executable 'readdaq' to read *.raw files from the DAQ directly
59
60 - added classes dealing with the telescope pointing position (MPointing*)
61
62 - implemented the 'final' Mars time stamp based on some experiences with
63 the new 'Synchonizer'
64
65
66
67 *** Version 0.8.2 (2003/11/10)
68
69 - accelerated standard analysis by a factor of 6-8 ...
70 + doing precalculations in MGeomCam for the pixel area ratio
71 + creating a look up table for the single pixels in MCerPhotEvt
72
73 - added task to calculates weights in case you want to 'change'
74 the energy spectrum of a monte carlo file
75 (MMcWeightEnergySpecCalc - Great work from Marcos Lopez Moya)
76
77 - added a new executable star which implements the
78 star.C macro as precompiled executable. Currently a flexible
79 setup is not possible, but a 'input card' setup will follow.
80
81 - Starting to implement Multi-Telescope-Support based on the
82 upcomming camera version 0.7. The base for a general support
83 is implemented and the star-functionality is proven to work.
84
85 - Replaced Event-Display in and Camera-Display in the Mars GUI
86 executable by a more convinient display base on MStatusDisplay.
87
88 - fixed the algorithm for the blind pixel treatment (MBlindPixelCalc)
89
90
91
92 *** Version 0.8.1 (2003/10/20)
93
94 - added signal subtraction for pure on data by means of fitting
95 the background in the off region or by performing a combined
96 signal/background fit. Provides necessary histograms for
97 obtaining energy spectra and a light curve.
98
99 - added classes to perform and study the selection of the
100 2nd Level Trigger on MC data (example in triglvl2.C macro)
101
102 - added pedestal calculation
103
104 - implemented "democratic cleaning" (tail cut value proportional
105 to pixel area) according to Wolfgang's suggestion.
106
107 - added Sigmabar treatment (calculation and basic histogramming)
108
109 - added basic routines to apply padding
110
111 - added first implementation of MARS-based source visibility plotter
112 (needs to be linked against slalib, preliminary version)
113
114 - enhanced functionality of data chains: random numbers, conversion
115 functions and access to MHMatrix objects
116
117 - fixed some bugs in the CT1 Preproc file reader, which gave wrong
118 numbers under certain circumstances (runs with 0 events included)
119
120 - fixed a bug in the general filter MF (didn't work on some systems
121 at all)
122
123 - fixed a bug in chaining files, which caused the analysis to crash or
124 ignore files
125
126 - implemented more geometry classes describing the parameters used
127 to simulate the PMT camera
128
129 - added new Monte Carlo classes containing the setup of the different
130 programs in the MC chain.
131
132 - added a (preliminary) general task to evaluate chi-square of a given
133 parameter in an eventloop.
134
135 - first implementation of a container describing the observatory
136 location (Long, Lat, etc)
137
138 - added Random Forest - method for g/h-separation
139
140 - made compatible with the latest PRO version of root (3.04/02 and 3.05/07)
141 (this means, that it is compiling, but not yet fully tested)
142
143 - added a new status display which can show the present status
144 of histograms while an eventloop is running (MStatusDisplay,
145 an example can be found at status.C)
146
147 - reorganized directories:
148 classes describing the image --> mimage
149 classes containing Monte Carlo Histograms --> mhistmc
150 classes for Random Forest method --> mranforest
151
152 - added (event-)weights to fill histograms
153
154 - colors in logging output to screen
155
156 - changes to the Image Parameter declaration:
157 + moved fConc, fConc1 from MHillasSrc to MNewImagePar
158 + moved fNumUsedPix, fNumCorePix from MHillas to MNewImagePar
159 + MHillasExt now derives from MParContainer instead of MHillas
160 --> Files written with the old definition are more or less unreadable
161
162 - reading of reflector files
163
164 - display data from reflector files in the camera
165
166 - implemented currents (and display them in the camera)
167
168 - logarithmic scale in camera
169
170 - added class to iterate through directory contents (MDirIter)
171
172
173
174 *** Version 0.8 (2002/11/18)
175
176 - added all subdirectories as Include-Paths for ACLIC (s. rootlogon.C)
177
178 - corrected 48(!) wrong entries in the Next Neighbor table of the
179 Magic Camera (all in the inner part of the outer ring, mostly
180 missing a single NN)
181
182 - Fixed a bug in the table describing the Next Neighbours of the
183 CT1 camera (a pixel 127 doesn't exist and the pixel 126 didn't
184 have any neighbour)
185
186 - changed trigrate.C: now it calculates the pure NSB triggers from
187 a camera file (generated with no showers), so there is no need
188 to introduce them by hand in the BgR array (for more details
189 please ask Abelardo)
190
191 - added MHHadronness (and MHadronness) as a general facility to evaluate
192 the quality of a gamma-hadron seperation method
193
194 - changed MWriteAsciiFile to accept rules (MDataChain)
195
196 - Calls to MWriteAsciiFile::AddContainer and MWriteAsciiFile::AddRule
197 must be replaced by calles to MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumn and
198 MWriteAsciiFile::AddColumns. Be carefull, the arguments have slightly
199 changed.
200
201 - Implemented generalized event-matrices (one row per event)
202 (MHMatrix)
203
204 - implemented the one dimensional composite probabilities
205 (MHCompProb, MCompProbCalc, comprob.C)
206
207 - implemented the Multidimensional Distances (Next Neighbours, Kernel)
208 (MMultiDimDistCalc, multidimdist.C, multidimdist2.C, MHMatrix)
209
210 - Added a camera display displaying the pixel numbers to the
211 event display gui.
212
213 - Added Monte Carlo Informations to event display gui
214
215 - Changed the camera display to display the pixel numbering
216
217 - Added three buttons to the camera display to change the palette
218
219 - Added the number of used and core pixels after image cleaning
220 to MHillas
221
222 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillas according to TDAS 02-03
223
224 - Changed the Alpha range according to TDAS 02-03 to [-90°,90°]
225
226 - Changed the algorithm used in MHillasSrc according to TDAS 02-03
227
228 - Added fCosDeltaAlpha to MHillasSrc
229
230 - The numbers of photons used to calculate fConc and fConc1 in
231 MHillasExt are now scaled with the pixel size, so that one get
232 a four times smaller value for the bigger pixels in the outer ring.
233
234 - added new task to smooth the camera contents (MCameraSmooth)
235
236 - added possibility to use interpolated pixel values for blind pixels
237 instead of removing it completely from the analysis
238
239 - Implemented the possibility to save the whole eventloop with
240 its setup to a file. This information can be read and from
241 it you can (re)create a Macro. See MEvtLoop::Read, MEvtLoop::Write
242 and MEvtLoop::MakeMacro. If you find something not working, please
243 report - this stuff is still in a beta phase.
244
245 - MBlindPixelCalc set all Ceta-Tauri pixels to unused not only for the
246 file having crab starfield, but also for all following files - fixed
247
248 - MTaskList::PrintStatistics can now be instructud to print also the
249 title, too: use PrintStatistics(0, kTRUE)
250
251 - Changed the image cleaning so that pixels with to many 'used'
252 neighbors are left used (to get rid of 'holes' in events)
253
254 - Introduced more output to the camera displays
255
256 - Added an array of histograms (eg one hist per run), MHArray
257
258 - Added a _preliminary_ version of the reader for CT1 PreProc files
259 (MCT1ReadPreProc)
260
261 - Fixed the error calculation of MHMCollectionArea and MHMcIntRate
262 (thanks to Raquel)
263
264 - added the first energy estimator (MEnergyEstParam, estimate.C,
265 estfit.C) using a parametrization
266
267 - Added some new Monte Carlo paremeter containers used to store
268 setup information from the MC chain (MMcConfigRunHeader,
269 MMcCorsikaRunHeader, MGeomPMT, MGeomMirror)
270
271
272
273 *** Version 0.7 (2002/04/30)
274
275 - added a bugfix to MCerPhotCalc. In older camera versions (<=40)
276 the pedestal mean value was saved incorrectly. For files from
277 this versions we substract 0.5 from the pedestal mean.
278 WARNING: This may effect your results, so don't wonder...
279
280 - First implementation of an algorithm using only triggered events
281 for the collection area calculation
282
283 - Ascii Output can now also be used for parameter containers which
284 doesn't overload MParCointainer::AsciiWrite
285
286 - The Ascii Output is now also capable of writing single data members
287 of one container
288
289 - You are now able to change the order of the values written to the
290 ascii file
291
292 - You can now specify a conversion factor for each data member written
293 to an ascii file. This may be usefull to change the units of the
294 data member (eg. degrees instead of millimeters in case of the
295 hillas parameters)
296
297 - Replaced old MHillas by a new structure which allows you to extend
298 the parameters stored in MHillas very easily:
299 see MHillas and MHillasExt
300
301 - Added classes to handle source dependancy of image parameters:
302 see MHillasSrc
303
304 - Added container (MBinning) to have a standard input for the binning
305 in different histograms (eg. the Energy bins should be the same in
306 all histograms)
307
308 - Changed Hillas histograms from mm to deg
309
310 - Added the flexible binning to the hillas histograms
311
312 - Added a filter for the alpha parameter (MFAlpha)
313
314 - It is now possible to write single data members of a class object to
315 an output stream instead of the whole container only
316
317 - Added a generalized filter for a data member:
318 MFDataMember filter("MHillas.fWidth", '<', 0.5);
319
320 - Added a generalized Filter parser for more difficult filter rules
321 MF filter("MHillas.fWidth<0.5 && MHillas.fLength>0.5");
322
323 - Added new Monte Carlo histograms:
324 MHMcEnergyImpact and MHMcEfficiency
325
326 - Added many new histograms needed for the flux calculation.
327
328 - Added a generalized histograms which can fill and show up to three
329 data members in either a one-, two- or three-dimensional histogram, eg:
330 MH3 mh3("MHillas.fWidth", "MHillas.fLength");
331
332 - Added:
333 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of Theta (MHThetabarTheta)
334 * calculation of <Theta> as a function of time (MHThetabarTime)
335 they are needed in the flux calculation in
336 order to select for a given bin in Theta (or time) the appropriate
337 effective collection area, which is assumed to be given as a function
338 of Theta and the true energy
339
340 - Added calculation of the migration matrix in the energy
341 (MHMcEnergyMigration):
342 the migration matrix describes the migration from the true (E_true)
343 to the estimated energy (E_est); it is needed to determine the
344 distribution of E_true from the measured distribution of E_est
345 by unfolding
346
347 - changed the color palette in the camera display to DeapSea.
348
349
350
351 *** Version 0.6 (2002/01/15)
352
353 - Introduce the option of disable pixels (MBlindPixels and
354 MBlindPixelCalc) for the analysis (eg MHillasCalc) to be
355 able to deal with Star Field NSB.
356
357 - Fixed a bug in the pedestals substraction
358
359 - Introduced verbosity levels
360
361 - Introduced a task (MReadMarsFile) which reads the RunHeader tree, too.
362
363 - Fixed several bugs in MFTriggerLvl1 which caused to filter not to
364 work correctly (thanks to Abelardo)
365
366 - Introduced correct treatment of the diffuse Night Sky Background
367 and NSB (MMcPedestalNSB)
368
369 - Corrected treatment of the electronic noise (MMcPedestalCopy)
370
371 - Introduced MMcRunHeaders which contains monte carlo run informations
372
373 - Added a 'Print'-Task (MPrint) which calls the Print function
374 of a parameter container for each event
375
376 - Removed MHtml (was replaced by THtml of root 3.02) in dohtml.C
377
378 - changes to be more efficient with root 3.02/06
379
380 - root 3.02/06 fixes:
381 + the memory leak when reading MRawEvtData
382 + loosing more time than necessary to update the progress bar
383
384 - MWriteAsciiFile is now capable of writing more than one container
385 in a line. For example: To be able to write Monte Carlo and
386 Hillas values (energy and alpha) in one line.
387
388
389
390 *** Version 0.5 (2001/11/06)
391
392 - Added new GUI functionality (Analysis)
393
394 - Added a camera display to be able to display events in the camera
395 together with the calculated hillas ellipse
396
397 - Added a 'Clone'-Task (MClone) which can clone a parameter container
398 object at any state of the analysis, so that the output are several
399 states
400
401 - Fixed a bug in the collection area error calculation
402 (Thanks to Ciro and Abelardo)
403
404 - Fixed a bug which causes merpp to crash in some environments
405
406 - Implemented auto enabling scheme for Branches to speed up reading
407 a lot (see MReadTree and MTask)
408
409 - Fixed a bug in the Histogram classes which caused histograms to
410 be written to a file by MWriteRootFile without request
411
412 - changed the object I/O from the old stylish root I/O to the new
413 'auto evolution scheme' This was done only for classes which are not
414 yet used in Monte Carlo files, so that these files are still readable.
415
416 - Added support for a progress bar in MEvtLoop and MReadTree
417 (see the Analysis Window in Mars for an example)
418
419 - Fixed a bug in the package creation which disturbed the conversion
420 between a mars version unpacked from a tar file and the repository.
421
422 - Changed the code to writer merpped (converted into root format)
423 raw files, to get faster (around 10%)
424
425
426
427 *** Version 0.4 (2001/09/20)
428
429 - This release is made to compile on a root version >= 3.00
430
431 - Fixed a bug which causes MReadTree to read the first file only
432
433 - Added a task to compute the trigger rate (MMcTriggerRateCalc)
434
435 - Added a task to write a container to an Ascii file (MWriteAsciiFile)
436
437 - Added a task to write several container to a root file (MWriteRootFile)
438
439 - Added calculation of the Enegry Threshold (MMcThresholdCalc)
440
441 - Added calculation of the collection area (MMcCollectionAreaCalc)
442
443 - fixed some bugs in the Hillas calculation
444
445 - added filters to be able to control the task execution dependent on
446 a parameter (for example: the number of level 1 triggers in a MC-file)
447
448
449
450 *** Version 0.3 (2001/04/23)
451
452 - Many demo macros added
453
454 - MCT1ReadAscii is now able to handle more than one file (s. ::AddFile)
455
456 - Hillas Calculation added
457
458 - Standard image cleaning available
459
460 - MReadTree is now able to handle more than one file
461 (Remark: of the same structure)
462
463 - Now we are able to display events in a first version of the
464 Camera event display. To do this we must run the macro
465 "macros/readCT1.C" to read data from CT1.
466
467
468
469 *** Version 0.2 (2001/01/24)
470
471 - First Implementation of a Gui to read the raw data. Start the
472 gui with the command mars.
473
474
475
476 *** Version 0.1 (2000/12/20)
477
478 - First official release 0.1
479
480 - Changes:
481
482 + changed calling style of MRawPixelIterator from do...while to
483 while-loop
484
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